The only reason Ive done that is to show how little a lot of people have to give to make a large amount. If it was 15000 it would only be £24 per person. Given that some give more and some give less, Im certain we can do this!!!!!

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Some interesting statistics from the 2008/09 campaign:-- the most common donation was £50 (£10, £20 & £100 also being prominent spikes)- the average was £60- the total number who pledged was around 9,000

Remember that Gift Aid adds (approx) 20% to the face value of each donation so that a donation of £50 is worth approx £60 to XH558.

No room for complacency, but I'm fairly positive about it all - certainly an improvement on 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006...

After all, we've contacted far more people this time around - and with a far better message (relatively small, short-term glitch in cashflow vs needing a very large proportion of our budget from the 'begging bowl').

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985 posts on last forum - so I get the \'hallowed 1000\' for just 15 on this one (yippee!)

If we assume a typical level of Gift Aid (20%) then that £365k shrinks to £304k (Gift Aid provides the balance).

So realistically, we're looking at around £300k of donations (with Gift Aid) from approx 25,000 people.

That's £12 per head but (of course) only a small proportion will donate.

Using the known average of £60 per head from 2008/09, we'd need 5,000 donors from an initial 'population' of 25,000 which seems attainable to me?

Of course the 25,000 figure is only a subset of those who will learn of the appeal - we will also pick up more supporters over the coming weeks via national press, forwarding of emails, word of mouth, etc.

Looking quite feasible I would say.

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985 posts on last forum - so I get the \'hallowed 1000\' for just 15 on this one (yippee!)

I was contacted by someone in the local area this week whose request to redeem his pledge earlier in the year had got lost in the post. Given that there were quite a few unredeemed pledges, are there plans to revisit them during October? Surely a good number of these will, similarly, have been lost by 'good old Royal Mail' or ended up at the bottom of someone's intray and just forgotten about??

I'm sure this is already in hand and I'll pass on details of any more I come across to the Trust.

Sorry that this is off-topic (and may already have been covered somewhere :? ).